Reviews of Another World Instead

“William Stafford’s quiet presence in the landscape of American poetry in my lifetime has been a kind of continuing reassurance whose value always seemed to me beyond question.”

—W.S. MERWIN

“William Stafford’s poems walk silently and gracefully before you, and then they turn and surprise you with their power, their defiant criticism of contemporary culture. Fred Marchant has put together a wonderful collection.”

—HOWARD ZINN

“It is not easy to write about William Stafford's poetry and its complex simplicities. But Fred Marchant has given us an introduction to the early work that is both insightful and illuminating. These poems are presented in the context of Stafford's years as a Conscientious Objector, and we are able to trace his development as a man and as a poet in ways that are new, at least to me. And what a pleasure to read so many Stafford poems that have not been readily available before.”

—LINDA PASTAN

“Long-term readers of Stafford's work will find evidence of his lifelong style in these early roots. Readers new to Stafford will find an entrance to a lifetime of enduring themes in Stafford's oeuvre: home, family, memory, landscape and the endless quest for the inner life. The book serves as both a record of an uncertain existence and a historical document of a population nearly erased from history.”

—THE OREGONIAN

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